South West chartered accountancy firm Milsted Langdon has taken a major step towards its ambition of becoming a fully sustainable and innovative business by completing a refurbishment of one of its offices. The transformation of the firm’s Taunton base, its largest, includes a reshaping of the office space to create a more modern work...
Iconic Somerset-based fashion business Mulberry is looking to its factories in the county to help make it one of the world’s most sustainable luxury brands. The manufacturing sites at Chilcompton, south of Bath, and in Bridgwater – which between them produce more than half of all Mulberry’s output – have been carbon neutral since...
Recycling rates in Bath and North East Somerset are among the best in England according to new research, with the area claiming number three spot in a league table based on the amount of refuse householders throw out. The study is based on the recycling and composting rates of English local authority areas and...
The Bath-based landscape architect behind Singapore’s iconic Supertrees tourist attraction and the current Superbloom display at the Tower of London is calling for more city spaces to be turned over to nature to boost biodiversity, tourism and wellbeing. Andrew Grant RDI, founder of pioneering landscape architecture practice Grant Associates was lead designer on the...
Companies selling ethical and sustainable products could increase sales by using up-tempo and upbeat music in their marketing, new research from the University of Bath has revealed. Music plays a key role in advertising as it can produce a strong emotional response from the consumer – with music in a major key, or mode,...
Bath’s Clean Air Zone, introduced in March last year, has halved the number of high-emission vehicles in the city centre and driven down its previous high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution, according to the first major report into its impact. Bath and North East Somerset Council, which brought in what was then the...
An environmental initiative between Bristol Airport and easyJet that slashed emissions from equipment used to get passengers and baggage onto aircraft has won an international award. The trial – believed to be the first of its kind – reduced emissions to almost zero by using electric ground vehicles instead of diesel to move aircraft...
Bath-based wireless technology firm Icoteq is supporting two brothers aged 10 and 12 in a pioneering 20,000km voyage to send two replica ships to circumnavigate Antarctica. Icoteq, which previously developed a new generation of satellite tracking equipment aimed at sea turtles and a plastic pollution tracker for a National Geographic-backed expedition – has designed...
Bath marketing professionals will be able to learn how three West of England firms have successfully put sustainability at their core when they speak at an event in the city next week. Pukka Herbs, Hobbs House Bakery and Sawday’s & Canopy & Stars have all made sustainability central to their marketing activity. They have...
Bath Unlimited, the organisation that celebrates the city’s most dynamic, successful, world-class companies and their talented employees, is to launch a networking group for young professionals. Called Unlimited Potential, it aims to bring together under-35s based in Bath who are contributing to its development as a centre for innovation – or intend to in...
